William the Conqueror and the Rule of the Normans

by F. M. Stenton

[284]. Cnut’s preparations and death are described at length in his life by Ethelnoth, printed in the Scriptores Rerum Danicarum.

[285]. Peterborough Chronicle, 1086.

[286]. See Flach, Les Origines de l’ancienne France, 531–534.

[287]. The ecclesiastical history of Normandy and England in the eleventh century is treated by Böhmer, Kirche und Staat in England, und in der Normandie, on which book this chapter is based.

[288]. See above, Introduction, ii., pp. [39], [40].

[289]. Especially in the Danelaw, V. C. H., Derby i., Leicester i.

[290]. Stubbs, Select Charters, 85. The writ in question probably belongs to the year 1075.

[291]. Pollock and Maitland, i., 89.

[292]. Peterborough Chronicle, 1083.

[293]. Abbot Ethelhelm of Abingdon was considered to have offended in this respect. Hist. Monast. de Abingdon, ii., 283.